RussianFan2013's review of LinguaShop Speak! Russian

I have been using this course for about two weeks and have learned quite a lot of Russian so far. The audio is very good, the words are pronounced very well, and slow enough for a learner to follow. The course is very easy to use, there is really nothing complicated about getting started, click “vocab” or “grammar” and then “auto-learn” and the software picks a lesson for you. The vocab section has images for the word in English along with the English word. As you get better on each word, the English word fades away, leaving just the image. This is an ingenious way to learn. First from the comfort of seeing the English word and later (when you are more confident with the word), of just seeing the image. I have Russian friends and expect to be able to start conversing with them in Russian shortly.